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constructed and the meaning made perfectly clear so that all understand what types of behavior will be tolerated and which will no...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

work in a factory. "Charles was deeply marked by these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: Hi...

He must wonder to himself why someone like Drood, who doesnt even love the lovely Rosa, should get to marry her...

dominance over his family. Tartuffe makes his entrance somewhat late in the play; however, by this point, his character has been t...

Dickens is an author who, for many, characterizes the Victorian literary era. He had first received public recognition as a newsp...

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

from electricity. But first, he must fashion a body. The proportions of Victors creation is important to the story. He was obvio...

my visitor, who was cold after her ride and looked hungry and who, our dinner being brought in, required some little assistance in...

these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: His Childhood). In an understatement perhaps, we ca...

any sense, which is the case in the novel. One similarity regarding the novel and the film involves the main characters fascina...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

of Dr. Frankenstein. However, in all honesty it is not the monster who is evil. The monster tries to learn, tries to find a place ...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

Meckier 1993). This book can be said to have more dark overtones than those of some of his other novels. In most of his stories, o...

of the novel, the other narratives, we do not simply see him as a kind and gentle creature. We also have the narrative that com...

novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...

his fathers will by forcing his half-brother Oliver into crime" (Baxter). With this in mind we see that the story is truly dark...

break his heart. What do you play, boy? asked Estella of myself, with the greatest disdain. Nothing but beggar my neighbour, miss....

of monster that Shelly offers. In like kind she offers for examination the type of monster that takes no responsibility for his ac...

so adept at writing about them (Daunton). In the following we see Dickens describe the conditions and environment of Jo: "It is a...

opens minds, creating a more rounded person, knowing this process and appreciating whilst it is taking place also adds to the pro...

world and symbolizes the ideal vision of a woman in a patriarchal world. This is why the embittered and lost man who is Carton lov...

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

The idea of utilitarianism is one that addresses whether something is of utility, whether it can actually create something positiv...

he wants more from life, he begins to have great expectations. Later in the story he is given the opportunity to become educated...

child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in the...

during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...

the same way, with the result that his daughter Louisa feels unfulfilled while his son Tom becomes completely self-interested. The...

because she often reads gothic novels and so her view of society is a bit askew. However, in the descriptions of her one can see t...